17/04/2011
IRISH OPEN 2011
Egyptian Double In Ireland
Irish
Open 2011
Men's Draw
11-16 Apr, Dublin, $25k |
Round One
13 Apr |
Quarters
14 Apr |
Semis
15 Apr |
Final
16 Apr |
[1] Stewart Boswell (Aus)
4/11, 11/5, 11/5, 11/4 (44m)
Nicolas Mueller (Sui) |
Stewart Boswell
11/5, 11/4, 8/11, 4/11, 11/2 (60m)
Chris Ryder |
Stewart Boswell
6-11, 11-4, 11-7, 11-5 (58m)
Borja Golan |
Stewart Boswell
12/10, 11/7, 8/11,11/3
Tarek Momen
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Chris Ryder (Eng)
11/9, 11/6, 11/7 (69m)
Alan Clyne (Sco) |
Mathieu Castagnet (Fra)
9/11, 11/7, 6/11, 11/7, 11/7
(88m)
[Q] Gregoire Marche (Fra) |
Mathieu Castagnet
11/9, 11/8, 11/1 (47m)Borja Golan
|
Borja Golan (Esp)
11/6, 11/7, 11/9 (60 mins)
[4] Ali Anwar Reda (Egy) |
[3] Saurav Ghosal (Ind)
11/8, 12/10, 11/3 (35m)
[Q] Henrik Mustonen (Fin) |
Saurav Ghosal
11/4, 11/6, 11/7 (44m)
Siddarth Suchde |
Saurav Ghosal
8-11, 2-11, 12-10 ret. (49m)
Tarek Momen |
[Q] Matthew Karwalski (Aus)
11/4, 12/10, 11/6 (44m)
[Q] Siddarth Suchde (Ind) |
Tarek Momen (Egy)
12/10, 11/7,11/6 (37m)
Campbell Grayson (Nzl) |
Tarek Momen
11/3, 8/11, 11/6, 11/4
Olli Tuominen |
Chris Simpson (Eng)
11/4, 11/7, 11/8 (32 mins)
[2] Olli Tuominen (Fin) |
Irish
Open 2011
Women's Draw
11-16 Apr, Dublin, $26k |
Round One
13 Apr |
Quarters
14 Apr |
Semis
15 Apr |
Final
16 Apr |
[1] Madeline Perry (Irl)
11/3, 12/10, 11/4 (28m)
Line Hansen (Den) |
Madeline Perry
11/7, 11/5, 11/6 (37m)
Manuela Manetta |
Madeline Perry
11-5, 11-7 ret. (21m)
Jaclyn Hawkes |
Jaclyn Hawkes
13/15, 5/11, 11/9, 12/10, 16/14
Nour El Tayeb |
[8] Manuela Manetta (Ita)
7/11, 11/6, 11/7, 11/7 (38m)
Orla Noom (Ned) |
[3] Jaclyn Hawkes (Nzl)
11/6, 11/3, 11/7 (24m)
[Q] Lauren Siddall (Eng) |
Jaclyn Hawkes
14/12, 11/13, 11/4, 11/3 (50m)
Dominique Lloyd-Walter |
[7] Dominique Lloyd-Walter (Eng)
11/4, 11/13, 4/11, 13/11, 12/10 (78m)
[Q] Heba El Torky (Egy) |
[Q] Tenille Swartz (Rsa)
11/9, 11/4, 6/11, 6/11, 11/5 (58m)
[5] Emma Beddoes (Eng) |
Tenille Swartz
11/7, 11/6, 11/9 (23m)
Nour El Tayeb |
Nour El Tayeb
7-11, 11-7, 10-12, 11-1, 11-3 (44m)
Vanessa Atkinson |
Victoria Lust (Eng)
11/5, 11/2, 11/3 (20 mins)
[4] Nour El Tayeb (Egy) |
Kylie Lindsay (Nzl)
11/7, 11/4, 11/6 (26m)
[6] Aisling Blake (Irl) |
Aisling Blake
11/9, 11/6, 8/11, 11/7 (40m)
Vanessa Atkinson |
[Q] Lisa Aitken (Sco)
11/2, 15/13, 11/9 (25 mins)
[2] Vanessa Atkinson (Ned) |
Egyptian Double In Ireland
Egypt has much cause to celebrate a fine
double victory in the Cannon Kirk Homes Open squash finals today. Both Irish
Open champions are from Egypt.
Their women’s rising star, eighteen year old,
Nour El Tayeb,*4 won a dramatic and exhausting match in one hour fifty
minutes: a world record for a women’s game, the previous record was one hour
forty five minutes. Her opponent Hawkes*3 raced off to a 2 game lead, and
led the third game 8/5, the more experienced Hawkes looked to have the match
well under control, needing only 3 points for the title. The very talented
El Tayeb tighted her game a little and eliminated her error count and
suddenly it was 2 games all. Hawkes had a match ball in the fourth game but
El Tayeb went on to level
the match at 2 all. The fifth game went all the
way, Hawkes had 2 further match balls
and El Tayeb had to wait for her
fourth match point before winning her first Irish Open title. Her
athleticism and stroke range produced squash that left the crowd gasping.
The men’s final saw the defeat of Stewart
Boswell( AUS) *1 by the unseeded Tarek Momen ( EGY). Momen has a world
ranking of 24 and Boswell is 21 so it was inevitable it would be a
encounter. However, Momen chased down every ball from the start and never
looked likely to lose even when her lost the third game.
Perry
&
Ghosal Downed By Injuries In Dublin
Women's favourite Madeline Perry and
men's third seed Saurav Ghosal both exited prematurely from the
Cannon Kirk Homes Irish Squash Open after suffering injuries during the
semi-finals of the established international Tour event at the
Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club in Dublin.
In the women’s WISPA World Tour Silver 20
event, Ireland's defending champion Madeline Perry struggled from the start
of her match against Jaclyn Hawkes and seemed to reach every ball a
fraction too late to impose herself on the third seed from New Zealand.
Trailing two games down, the world No3 from
Belfast conceded the match. Perry said she had injured her back following
her quarter final match against Italian Manuela Manetta and was
unable to move freely.
Winner of the title four times since 2005,
Perry expressed great disappointment at not being able to continue her
challenge for her fifth Irish Open squash title: "But I will be back to
challenge next year," said the Irish star.
Hawkes, now celebrating her tenth WISPA Tour
final appearance, will face Nour El Tayeb, the rising star of women's
squash in Egypt.
The 18-year-old fourth seed brought to an end
the distinguished squash career of Dutch star Vanessa Atkinson, the
35-year-old former world number one and winner of 24 WISPA Tour titles who
was competing in her final Tour event.
Atkinson, winner of the Irish Open title in
2003 and 2004 and runner-up last year, twice led the Cairo teenager – but El
Tayeb played with confidence and intelligence to eventually wear down the
former world champion 7-11, 11-7, 10-12, 11-1, 11-3 in 44 minutes to reach
the second Tour final of her young career.
India's Saurav Ghosal was forced to retire in the
semi-finals of the men’s PSA World Tour International 25 event after
leading by two games and looking very much in control of the match against
unseeded Egyptian Tarek Momen.
Leading 7-4 in the third game, a sudden
injury forced him off court for treatment. The Kolkata-born world No23
returned to the court, clearly impaired, and tried his best to win the final
four points needed to seal the match.
However, despite reaching ten-all, the
24-year-old was unable to make any further impression and, on the advice of
a doctor, was forced to retire – leaving Momen to move through to the final
after his 8-11, 2-11, 12-10 (ret.) victory.
Momen, the world No24 from Cairo now in his
sixth Tour final, will face top seed Stewart Boswell after the world
No20 from Australia ended the run of Spaniard Borja Golan, three
times a finalist in Dublin, 6-11, 11-4, 11-7, 11-5 in 58 minutes.
Boswell, the 32-year-old former world No4
from Canberra, is celebrating his 35th PSA Tour final.
Tarek Takes Out Tuominen In Dublin
Egypt’s unseeded Tarek Momen denied
Olli Tuominen the chance of celebrating his 32nd birthday in
the semi-finals of the Cannon Kirk Homes Irish Open when he upset the
second-seeded Finn in the quarter-finals of the men’s PSA World Tour
International 25 squash event at the Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club
in Dublin.
Momen, playing in his first Tour event since
graduating with an Electronic Engineering degree from the American
University in Cairo, defeated Tuominen, the world No22, 11-4, 8-11, 11-6,
11-6.
The 23-year-old world No24 will now face
third seed Saurav Ghosal for a place in the final. Ghosal, the world
No23 from India, beat compatriot and Leeds house-mate Siddharth Suchde,
a qualifier from Mumbai, 11-4, 11-6, 11-6.
Spain’s Borja Golan is one match away
from his fourth appearance in the final since 2006 after beating Frenchman
Mathieu Castagnet 11-9, 11-8, 11-1.
The former world No10 from Santiago de
Compostela now faces Australian Stewart Boswell after the event
favourite battled for five games to overcome England’s Chris Ryder
11-5, 11-4, 8-11, 4-11, 11-2.
Irish eyes are still smiling in the women’s
WISPA World Tour Silver 20 event where defending champion Madeline
Perry beat Italy’s Manuela Manetta 11-7, 11-5, 11-6.
The 34-year-old world No3 from Belfast,
seeded to win her fifth title since 2005, will now meet third seed Jaclyn
Hawkes for a place in her third final in a row.
New Zealander Hawkes beat England’s No7 seed
Dominique Lloyd-Walter 14-12, 11-13, 11-4, 11-3.
But there was disappointment for the local
crowd when Sligo’s sixth seed Aisling Blake went down 11-9, 11-6,
8-11, 11-7 to No2 seed Vanessa Atkinson.
The Dutch star, winner of the title in 2003
and 2004, now goes on to face Nour El Tayeb – the fourth-seeded
Egyptian teenager who despatched South African qualifier Tenille Swartz
11-7, 11-6, 11-9.
Swartz & Golan Upset Irish Open Odds
Spaniard Borja Golan and South African
Tenille Swartz produced notable upsets on the opening day of the
Cannon Kirk Homes Irish Open, the long-established men’s and women’s
international squash circuit event at the Fitzwilliam Lawn Tennis Club
in Dublin.
After surviving a close-fought five-game
match to qualify for the women’s WISPA World Tour Silver 20 event,
Tenille Swartz resisted a spirited fightback by fifth seed Emma Beddoes
in the first round to beat the world No24 from England 11-9, 11-4, 6-11,
6-11, 11-5 in 58 minutes.
The 23-year-old world No47 from Cape Town, a
former world No28 fighting back after shoulder surgery, now takes on
18-year-old Nour El Tayeb, the fourth seed from Egypt who despatched
England’s Victoria Lust 11-5, 11-2, 11-3 in just 20 minutes.
Irish number one Madeline Perry leads
local hopes in the women’s event. The 34-year-old world No3 from Belfast,
seeded to win her fifth title since 2005, beat Denmark’s Line Hansen
11-3, 12-10, 11-4 – and will join fellow Irish star Aisling Blake in
the quarter-finals.
Blake, the sixth seed from Sligo, ousted New
Zealander Kylie Lindsay 11-7, 11-4, 11-6.
Three times a finalist in the championship
since 2006, Borja Golan successfully began his campaign in the men’s PSA
World Tour International 25 event with an 11-6, 11-7, 11-9 upset over
Egypt’s fourth seed Mohd Ali Anwar Reda in exactly one hour.
The former world No10 from Santiago de
Compostela is also on a comeback trail after recovering from major knee
surgery. Winner of the title in his first appearance in Dublin in 2006,
Golan now faces Mathieu Castagnet, the victor after 88 minutes of a
hard-fought all-French clash with qualifier Gregoire Marche, by a
9-11, 11-7, 6-11, 11-7, 11-7 margin.
Top-seeded Australian Stewart Boswell
had to fight back from a game down to overcome Swiss star Nicolas Mueller
4-11, 11-5, 11-5, 11-4. The UK-based world No20 will now line up against
England’s Chris Ryder, the 11-9, 11-6, 11-7 winner of a 69-minute
first round battle with top Scot Alan Clyne.
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